The ChaTham Day 2 – Thursday 30th September 2021 (B,L,D) The Wild West Islands 29Th sepTember -6Th Continental Breakfast 7.00am to 9.00 am Today travel over part of the Waitangi West Station OCTOber 2021 consisting of 3,412 hectares carrying 10,000 sheep. Recently bought by a Chinese buyer for $5m Stone Cottage & Maunganui Bluff The cottage was built between 1866 & 1868 for the Moravian Missionaries who arrived in the Chathams in 1843. These German missionaries made no converts, but had a significant input into the history and lifestyle of the Chathams, introducing large-scale horticulture, sheep farming, ship building and literacy. The cottage is built largely of local stone and wood, which reflects the missionaries' attitudes. Day 1 – Wednesday 29th September 2021 (D) They were committed to the idea of being self reliant New Plymouth to The in their own lives, and as an example to others, This morning we board our coach for a leisurely hence using only local materials. We then visit the journey to Wellington Airport to catch our flight. safest fishing harbour with the most shipwrecks on There will be a stop in bulls for a bite to eat before the island, at . Packed lunch and a cup of carrying on our journey south. Upon arrival at tea on the beach. Our next stop is the amazing Basalt Wellington Airport we get checked in and get ready Columns at Waitangi West. to board our plane. During our flight over you might Evening (three course) meal in Hotel Dining Room. like to put your watches forward, the Chathams are 45 minutes ahead of NZ time but seems like you are travelling back 20 years. On Arrival we will be met by Hotel Owner & Local tour guide Toni Croon, where she will take us for a quick stop at the Red Bluffs. Here you will have an opportunity to take some photos before carrying on to our accommodation where we will be staying for the next 6 nights. Once checked in take some time to freshen up before our Crayfish welcoming Dinner.

Accommodation: Hotel Chathams 6 nights

Day 3 – Friday 1st October 2021 (B,L,D) Day 4 – Saturday 2nd October 2021 (B,L,D) Fishing Village or (Optional Fishing trip) Waitangi Town / West Coast (Optional Trip Optional activities: (Weather permitting). Deep sea fishing Optional activities: (Weather permitting). Pitt Island Day $195 pp 2 to 3 hours 10 pax Depart approx 7.30am returning Trip $400 pp 8 to 10 pax by Cessna Depart approx 9.30 approx 11.00am All Fish and Paua caught will be filleted and returning approx 4.30 bagged, frozen and able to be all brought home. Quota for recreational fishing 11 Blue Cod each & 11 Hapuka per boat and would come home early if quota caught. Extra, fresh Today we visit the Museum, Old Radio Station, Tiki ‘free flow’ Blue Cod or Groper can be bought at $65 per 2kg Tiki Hill and view over the newly built Waitangi to be brought home. Toni will have got numbers of persons Wharf Drive to the South Coast, where we can going and arranged the fishing trip the night before admire a reforestation area and endemic birds. We return to town and enjoy lunch at River Onion Gallery. Local photographer and artist Celine For those who have chosen not to do the optional Gregory-Hunt recently renovated and invested in her extra fishing charter we depart for our journey out beautiful property on the side of Waitangi beach to to the South-east and fishing settlement of Owenga. showcase her artwork inspired by the natural beauty A fishing village including a working fish factory, plus of Chatham and Pitt Island. Close by you can the remains of The Anglican Church of St Barnabas. purchase souvenirs at Chatham Cottage Gift Shop & First stop is the Moriori Kopinga Marae sited on the locally made jewellery at Dough & Go general store hilltop at Te Awatea. This is the only Moriori marae in New Zealand. Kopinga Marae, shaped like an Evening (three course) meal in hotel dinning room. albatross when viewed from the air, continues to amaze visitors. Learn the culture, learn about the History of the first inhabitants of the Island. Panoramic views across Lake Huro to Waitangi and across Te Whanga to its entrance at Te Awapatiki. Tommy Solomon Statue at Manakau, Owenga, Tommy Solomon, (7 May 1884 – 19 March 1933) is believed by most to have been the last fullblooded Moriori, which were the indigenous people of the Chatham Islands. Lunch at Owenga Club, organised by the community. We will drive to the Wind Farm and enjoy a short walk across the Preece farm to where the Millennium celebrations took place. This was the first place in the world to see the sun this century. Rangaiki Cliffs, 200-250m sheer drop cliffs, on a clear day amazing viewing point to Pitt and Mangere and surrounding Islands, also the best place to sight the seldom seen 44’s looking east out to sea. A walk across farm land north of Te One Township to see Moriori Rock Carving.

Evening (three course) meal in Hotel Dining Room.

Day 5 – Sunday 3rd October 2021 (B,L,D) We also take a look at the Henga Scenic Reserve. Kaingaroa Fishing Village Walking tracks pass through regenerating coastal Today we check out Nikau Bush Reserve which is forest to sand dune vegetation and hidden in the 19ha reserve located 1.5km North of Blind Jims. It bush are spectacular limestone formations. Judy’s conserves broadleaf forest with a fine stand of Nikau nursery is a great place to purchase palms the best on the island, the only palm native to Native Plants. the Chatham Islands, an even more impressive sight Evening (three Course) meal in hotel dining room. when flowering and bearing fruit. At Hapupu Historic Reserve we discover another unique archaeological Day 7 – Tuesday 5th October 2021 (B,L,D) site. Carved into the bark of kopi (karaka) trees Port Hutt within the reserve are Moriori tree carvings – known Over farmland down to Ohira Bay lies massive olivine as dendroglyphs. They are among the little evidence basalt columns, part of lava flows dated near 80 of pre-contact Moriori culture remaining on the million years ago. These are another interesting island. The last remaining live tree was expected to geological formation - a series of pentagonal shaped die and has done so during 2015 – 2017 We also visit volcanic rock columns on the shoreline, and not Broughton Landing - an old Mission and Whaling found anywhere else on the island and only two Station, and the farm ‘Mission Station’ owned by Jim other places in the world. Giant’s Causeway in Muirson. Jim has 1,400 hectares, running 3,000 Ewes Northern Island & Scotland and 350 Cows. This is where we will be able to view the remains of a wrecked RNZAF Short Sunderland Dinner this evening is a barbecue at Admiral Farm. and a newly arrived Fokker Friendship in the process (Named after the abundant Butterfly) This is a fourth of preservation. This particular Sunderland aircraft, generation Chatham’s property owned by the Croon provided an aviation lifeline to the island until it was family with a gorgeous garden featuring the eerie holed by a rock while taking off from the Te Whanga skeletons of dead kopi trees and great drifts of the Lagoon in 1959. stunning Chatham Island forget-me-not.

Tonight we will be dinning at the Kaingaroa Social Day 8 – Wednesday 6th October 2021 (B) Club for a buffet dinner. Port Hutt – Home Today we say good bye to the Chathams and make Day 6 – Monday 4th October 2021 (B,L,D) way for home, flying back to Wellington where on arrival we will be met by our driver and coach for the Today’s adventures take us to Nunuku’s Cave, across journey back to Taranaki. farmland on the lagoon shore are remarkable Moriori dendroglyph’s on limestone walls depicting Tour Costs Include stylised seals and other wild life. On the shores of beautiful Te Whanga lagoon, near Blind Jim's Creek,  7 nights’ accommodation, twin/double careful fossicking is likely to be rewarded by the rooms (Single rooms available with discovery of fossilised shark teeth. Around 30 million surcharge) year old. These incredibly ancient objects are almost  Tour Admissions as per Itinerary as scarce as hen’s teeth but can be found in the  Breakfast (B), Lunch (L) and dinners (D) Chatham Islands. To find a tooth from a creature where indicated on the itinerary. that was eating fish long before the first primate - let alone the first human - walked the earth is amazing. I Tour payments per person am sure that by the time you leave Te Whanga Lagoon you will all be in possession of one or many Twin/Double share $4900.00 of these prized ancient fossils. Single Supplement (additional) $1050.00 Deposit due at time of booking $1500.00

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